As I approach my own 50th birthday, I stare firmly down the tunnel of ‘How is this part of my life going to be affected by menopausal hormones?’ Given my random and periodically shaky experience with hormones over the years, I am not expecting plain sailing. Will I be in the United States where there [...]
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Hormonal help for grown-ups
Posted in Hormones, tagged expats and hormones, Hormonal help on June 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Crossing the puberty bridge to adolescence
Posted in Hormones, tagged adolescence, expat teens, puberty on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I distinctly recall turing around one day to look at my son in the eyes and finding myself looking at his chin instead. How the heck had he got so tall and when did he stop looking like a kid? It virtually did feel like it was an overnight thing and I felt like I [...]
Symptoms of hormonal activity
Posted in Hormones on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hormones have a way of telling us they are there and the symptoms we experience can be anything from the ‘normal’ ones to extreme ones. Amazon confirms the impact they have on our lives by displaying over 13,000 available books that relate to hormones in some way. Obviously I – and probably you – are [...]
Surges and deficits in faraway places
Posted in Hormones on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The isolation we sometimes experience in a faraway country can be magnified to many times its natural size when hormones begin their Olympic events. Whether it is puberty, pregnancy, PMS, PMDD, Peri-Menopause or ‘Paternal Menopause’ – our expat strengths and support networks are the main stays that get us through. The average age of the [...]
Hormones and the gene pool
Posted in Hormones on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Many women feel like they are the only ones affected by hormonal surges such as pre-menstrual tension and menopause. The truth is, men adolescents and children’s moods and behavior can also be altered by hormonal changes. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that women talk about it more and bring it into [...]
And hormones are for…
Posted in Hormones on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to the National Institute of Health (USA), hormones are the body’s messengers – powerful chemicals that help keep your body functioning normally, your bones strong, your brains acute, and your sex life potent. Hormones are involved in almost every biological process in your body including cell, tissue and organ development, sexual reproduction, growth, metabolism, [...]
Hormones anyone?
Posted in Hormones on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No thanks – I have enough of my own! These delightful aspects of our physiological make-up have a lot to answer for if you ask me. Living in weird and wonderful places can add to the impact they have on all of our lives – yes all of us, women, men and adolescents! I have [...]
